Mastering Bloomberg's Software Engineer Interview: Simplified System Design Challenge

Bloomberg | Software Engineer | Interview Experience

Interview Date: Not specified
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Difficulty: Not specified

Interview Process

Recently completed a system design interview with Bloomberg. The system was relatively simple and related to their Bloomberg Terminal. The task involved handling a large number of news articles, where each time a user clicks on an article, a read_event(articleId) is generated. The goal was to design an API called get_most_read_articles to retrieve the most read news articles in recent times. Overall, the experience felt easier compared to typical system design interviews, but the result is still pending.

Technical Questions

  1. System Design (Distributed Systems, Load Balancing, Caching, Message Queue)

Tips & Insights

Focus on understanding the requirements of the system and think about scalability and efficiency while designing APIs.